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Book 50! (Half way there!) NO FIXED ADDRESS by Robyn Davidson After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures – in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas – and she herself calls three countries home. In this Quarterly Essay, she drew on her unique experience to delineate a vanishing way of life. In a time of environmental peril, Davidson argues that the nomadic way with nature offers valuable lessons. Cosmologies such as the Aboriginal Dreaming encode irreplaceable knowledge of the natural world, and nomadic cultures emphasise qualities of tolerance, adaptability and human interconnectedness. She also explores a notable paradox: that even as classical nomadism is disappearing, hypermobility has become the hallmark of modern life. For the privileged, there is an almost unrestricted freedom of movement and an ever-growing culture of transience and virtuality. Robyn Davidson, author of the classic Tracks, has researched and written about the nomadic life for decades, and will reprise her signature theme in the Regional Centre for Culture Festival Address, on Sunday 12 August. . . . #bwf2018 #letsgetcurious #bendigo #bendigowf #explorebendigo #festivalpass #fridaypass #saturdaypass #sundaypass #historians #writersvictoria #regionalvictoria #regionalcentreforculture2018 #centralvictoria #robyndavidson #tracks #nofixedaddress
51. GOOD COUNTRY by Bain Attwood In this superbly researched book Bain Attwood eschews the generalisations of national and colonial history to provide a finely grained local history of the Dja dja Wurrung people of central Victoria. Insisting on the importance of grappling with a history that involved a relationship between the people of this Aboriginal nation, the British settlers who invaded their country, and men appointed by the imperial and the colonial governments to protect the Aboriginal people, as well as a relationship between the Dja dja Wurrung and their indigenous neighbours, Attwood draws on an unusually rich historical record. He challenges historical concepts such as the frontier and resistance, to show how they both adopted and adapted to the intruders and were thereby able to remain in their own country, at least for a time. Attwood closes this book with the remarkable story of the revival of the Dja dja Wurrung in recent times as they have sought to become their own historians. For anyone - but in particular for those of us fortunate enough to live on Dja Dja Wurrung land - this is essential reading, a wonderfully rich book and a well-told story. Come to our Festival, and share with us the history of merrygic barbarie, the good country. . . . #bwf2018 #letsgetcurious #bendigowf #explorebendigo #bendigo #bendigowritersfestival #historians #sunday #sundaypass #saturday #saturdaypass #friday #fridaypass #festivalpass #writers #readers #djadjawurrungcountry #authors #novelists #journalists #scientists #advocates #politicians #newvoices #documentarymakers

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